[ LETTER ]

Romney Did His Best

Published: Friday, November 23, 2012 at 12:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, November 23, 2012 at 12:15 a.m.

I am tired of the bashing of Mitt Romney from some Republican pundits and prospective GOP candidates. This is primarily based on comments on why he lost in a private conversation Mitt had to his financial supporters a few days after the election. Mitt was frank, perhaps too frank, but probably accurate about gifts by Barack Obama.

Bashing a fine man who is down is not only deplorable but does nothing to help win in the future. Mitt did the best he could against a heavy onslaught of personal attacks by the Democrats not seen since the Lyndon B. Johnson-Barry Goldwater election.

I have been involved in Republican presidential campaigns since 1968. Every time we lose many people say "that was the worst campaign ever." When we win it was "the best campaign ever." Somewhere in the middle is the truth.

Mitt made mistakes as all candidates do. I know one thing for sure, he tried his best to get every person's vote. We volunteers did our best to help get every vote we could for our candidate.

We will work hard to correct what went wrong to win in the future instead of sniping about candidates.

<p>I am tired of the bashing of Mitt Romney from some Republican pundits and prospective GOP candidates. This is primarily based on comments on why he lost in a private conversation Mitt had to his financial supporters a few days after the election. Mitt was frank, perhaps too frank, but probably accurate about gifts by Barack Obama.</p><p>Bashing a fine man who is down is not only deplorable but does nothing to help win in the future. Mitt did the best he could against a heavy onslaught of personal attacks by the Democrats not seen since the Lyndon B. Johnson-Barry Goldwater election.</p><p>I have been involved in Republican presidential campaigns since 1968. Every time we lose many people say "that was the worst campaign ever." When we win it was "the best campaign ever." Somewhere in the middle is the truth.</p><p>Mitt made mistakes as all candidates do. I know one thing for sure, he tried his best to get every person's vote. We volunteers did our best to help get every vote we could for our candidate.</p><p>We will work hard to correct what went wrong to win in the future instead of sniping about candidates.</p><p>BOB KELLY</p><p>Winter Haven</p>